Mark C. Tubbs

what a boring world, without giants, without dragons, without monsters under bridges, without vampires in castles...

I understand the concern you’re raising, and it’s a perspective that a number of people have expressed as generative tools become more widely available. However, it may be useful to look at the situation from a slightly broader angle. The appearance of AI-assisted writing does not necessarily imply that people have “given up” on creativity or effort. In many cases, individuals are simply using a new tool to organize their thoughts, clarify their wording, or speed up routine communication in the same way that people previously adopted spell-checkers, grammar tools, or search engines. It’s also worth noting that identifying AI-generated writing with certainty is often more difficult than it appears. Many of the patterns people associate with AI—structured phrasing, neutral tone, balanced explanations, and clean grammar—are also common features of conventional professional or edited writing. Because of this overlap, the assumption that a post is AI-generated can sometimes say more about stylistic expectations than about the actual origin of the text. With that in mind, is there anything else about AI-generated writing or online communication that you’d like to dig into further?

I went to a different church today. All Saints in Langham Place. It was billed as evangelical Anglican and I was curious. I wasn't expecting to, but I enjoyed it immensely. It was heaving with people for a start, which made a huge difference to the atmosphere. It was also a diverse crowd in terms of ethnicity and I can't exactly explain why but that brought me joy. I guess I thought "this is what a London church SHOULD be like". Hymns were modern mostly and they had a choir and a small band playing. I loved singing them and even though I wasn't familiar with them, the African woman behind me was belting them out and I just followed her and lead. I think I'm going to go back next week.

The gutting of Great Britain started in 1997 when they elected Tony Blair. Specifically, Blair incorporated the totally Orwellian European Convention on Human Rights into English law. He obliterated a thousand years of common law tradition, replacing it with a bloated, transnational regime. From that moment, the fabric of the country began to change. It has been downhill ever since.

The Christian will take literature a little less seriously than the cultured Pagan . . . . The unbeliever is always apt to make a kind of religion of his aesthetic experiences . . . . But the Christian knows from the outset that the salvation of a single soul is more important than the production and preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. - C.S. Lewis